Johnny Mathis of Houston rescued a small dog that was strapped to a leash outside the elevator - with the owner inside • "The doors closed and the poor dog started to suffocate, the leash pulled him"

Caleb Pomeranian has survived a crunch after accidentally being left outside the elevator when the owner is inside with the leash tied to it. The video shows 27-year-old neighbor Johnny Mathis of Houston Texas noticing a dog who stays outside the elevator and starts to choke, freeing him and thus rescuing him from death.

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- Johnny Mathis (@Johnnayyeee) December 10, 2019

Mathis said: "I came home from work and went up from the parking lot to my floor. At that very moment, a woman with a cute little dog entered the elevator, but I noticed that the leash was long and indeed the elevator was closed when the dog was left outside and started to suffocate because the leash began to pull it."

The young man went on to elaborate on how to rescue the dog with great resourcefulness. "I ran to him and managed to release the leash from him. At that moment the leash really flew to the top of the elevator. If I hadn't let the dog out he would have died terribly suffocated."

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"The owner was screaming and crying in the elevator and knocking on the door. She was sure her dog was dead and suffocated," Mathis wrote in a Twitter tweet. "I yelled at her that he was alive but she didn't hear. She returned to a scared floor and was happy to see that I was able to rescue him."

The young man tweeted a video from the security cameras and wrote: "I was really shaking. The moment I saved a dog I just turned back as the elevator closed. I saw it was tied to a leash that was in the elevator that started to mount, I ran and rescued it," he wrote. Below is a story for the U.S. media because he "doesn't know this woman, doesn't know if she lives here. She said thank you and we embraced with excitement she was so happy. "